Am Mon, 2002-11-25 um 22.56 schrieb Dimitrie O. Paun:
Good point. But the page is not intended to justify the existance of Winelib, but why we should make more use of it. Maybe I should add something about "Why have a Winelib app in the first place?"...
There are some applications where you simply have no chance of just runnning the native Windows app on Wine.
Winelib can be a solution for porting such software to Linux by only rewriting those parts that need to be rewritten, replacing NT with Unix functionality. This is much easier than doing a native port; most of the application's code can be left untouched.
IMO this is the "real world" reason for doing Winelib development - you can *combine* Windows and Unix code. OTOH Putty and Mozilla are apps that I'd expect to be able to run natively.
The reasons for Winelib work you give on your page are ok but sort of self-referential: They only make sense to people who have already accepted as a fact that Winelib is a good thing.
Martin